Posts made in August, 2014

Tune: I’ve been working on the railway.
Democracy is up for sale here
That we can’t permit
Corporations make the trade deals
MPs just submit
Companies have to make their profits
Doesn’t matter how
Laws are flushed right down the loopholes
And we just have to bow …
We won’t get our drugs
We won’t get our food
Parks and research all will go.
Global corporations
Fiddle with the nations
TPP has got to go!
They tell us we’ll be happy
The economy will grow (oh, oh oh)
But the money goes to corporations
That’s...

On July 10, the Ottawa Grans attended a hastily called demonstration by SumOfUs. Negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement made a last minute change of venue. They were supposed to meet in Vancouver, but Harper moved it to Ottawa to escape planned protests. This trade agreement is being negotiated in secrecy. Leaked information shows that it is a complete corporate takeover.
Grannies Alice, Alma, Ann, Cathleen, Jo, Ria, and Terrie sang two songs, “We are the Corporations“, an old favorite for these corporate take-overs and a new one,...